Tag: sports
How much longer will major league baseball stay in the closet?
Peter Dreier, Occidental College
In his 1990 autobiography, “Behind the Mask: My Double Life in Baseball,” Dave Pallone, a gay major league umpire who was...
Why some college sports are often out of reach for students...
Kirsten Hextrum, University of Oklahoma; Chris Knoester, The Ohio State University, and James Tompsett, The Ohio State University
When...
New NCAA endorsement rules could benefit women more than men
Lindsey Darvin, State University of New York College at Cortland
Only one week after the NCAA changed its endorsement...
What would the ancient Greeks think of an Olympics with no...
Vincent Farenga, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Because of a dramatic rise in COVID-19 cases, the...
Youth sports and other challenges of a nonbinary world: 3 essential...
Nick Lehr, The Conversation
While recognition and acceptance of people who don’t identify as strictly male or female is...
Tour de France: How many calories will the winner burn?
John Eric Goff, University of Lynchburg
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Imagine you begin pedaling from the start of Stage...
Why it’s such a big deal that the NFL’s Carl Nassib...
John Affleck, Penn State
The video was short and simple, but for America’s gay community it was a blockbuster...
Sticky baseballs: Explaining the physics of the latest scandal in Major...
John Eric Goff, University of Lynchburg
Cheating in baseball is as old as the game itself, and pitchers’ modifying...
EXPLORING NATURE
Don’t just plant trees, plant forests to restore biodiversity for the future
John Parker, Smithsonian Institution and Justin Nowakowski, Smithsonian Institution
Around the world, people plan to plant more than 1...
